What is the name meaning of CASTLES. Phrases containing CASTLES
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Indian, Sanskrit
Garlanded with Castles
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English
English : variant of Castles.
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English
English : apparently a metonymic occupational name for a crossbowman who specialized in fighting from the battlements of castles, from Anglo-Norman French carnel ‘battlement’, ‘embrasure’ (a metathesized form of crenel, Late Latin crenellus, a diminutive of crena ‘notch’).English : reduced form of Carbonell or Cardinal.Swedish : the second element -ell is a common suffix of Swedish surnames, taken from the Latin adjectival ending -elius. The first element is unexplained.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : from a plural or genitive form of Castle.
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A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall.
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A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.
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Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.
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A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
prep.
With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.
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A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
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The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.
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One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.
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Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.